CONTENTS
book L BALLADS IN GENERAL
I. people and poets       .....       i
II. what is a ballad?     .	.	.	.	.16
 III.	performance   .	.	.	.	.	-33
 IV.	tunes .......     41
V. kinds and dates       .	.	.	.	-56
VI. How ballads spread .	.	.	.	.72
VII. the descent of ballads       .	.	.	.90
VIII. the ascent of ballads         .	.	.	.109
book II. BALLADS IN PARTICULAR
I. romance ballads
 1.	France, Provence, North Italy, and Brittany	.    132
 2.	Central and Southern Italy and Sicily           .	.148
 3.	Spain, Spanish Jewry, Portugal, Ibero-America	-    152
 4.	Catalonia     .            .           .           .           .	.192
IL nordic ballads
 1.	General Considerations        .           .           .           •	195
 2.	Scandinavia            .....	208
 3.	England, Scotland, America ....	228
 4.	Germany and the Low Countries      .           .           .	242
 5.	Czechoslovakia, Hungary      ....	272
 6.	Lusatia, Poland       .....	277
 7.	Lithuania, Latvia     .....	284
 8.	Esthonia, Finland    .	.	.	.	-293
III.	balkan ballads
 1.	Asia Minor, Greece ,	302
 2.	Yugoslavia, Bulgaria	....    320
 3.	Rumania     ......   345
IV.	russian ballads
 1.	Great Russia	.	.	.	.	-354
 2.	Ukrainia     .           .           .           .           .           -375
NOTES	381
INDEX	393